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Quotes About Fish

I sat there watching him examine the fish and marvelling at what we'd caught. A genuine eccentric Oxford don. They're an extinct species, too...
~ Connie Willis
Madame Iritosky opened her mouth, closed it, and opened it again, looking exactly like Colonel Mering's globe-eyed ryunkin. "Fish?" Baine said, bending over her with the platter of sole. Round One to our side. Now, if only the seance would go as well.
~ Connie Willis
Peace out, rainbow trout.
~ Conrad Williams
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about
~ Cotton Mather
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are—like fishes not meant to swim.
~ Cyril Connolly
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea . . . maybe . . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Old Man" The fish has too many bones and the watermelon too many seeds.
~ Charles Reznikoff
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
~ Charles Simic
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
~ Charlie Kaufman
At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.
~ Thai Proverb
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
~ Halldor Laxness
Og silungur gengur þar á milli beina, fiskur sem enginn vill sjá á borðum hér. Hér hafa sextán kynslóðir búið í svengd og sjö þúsund kynslóðir af bleikju dáið í hárri og feitri elli. Hungrið er vofa sem alin er á hjátrú sem nærist á heimsku sem sefur hjá trú. Sá sem fyrstur veiðir í þessu vatni mun eta silung með landnámsbragði.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions of fish fossils; yet nobody has ever found even one that is midway between them.
~ Harun Yahya
lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.
~ Laurie Frankel
most large-fish species, including cod, marlin, swordfish, and tuna, are critically endangered, and huge dead zones are appearing in our oceans, silent places devoid of life. It
~ Lawrence Anthony
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
~ lawrence d h iv
Cast up the heart flops over gasping 'Love' a foolish fish which tries to draw its breath from flesh of air And no one there to hear its death among the sad bushes where the world rushes by in a blather of asphalt and delay
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The bar had the ambiance of a Chevron station mini-mart and the odor of someone deep-frying fish in a men's locker room.
~ Lee Goldberg
The Lachrymose Leeches,' Aunt Josephine said, 'are quite different from regular leeches. They each have six rows of very sharp teeth ad one very sharp nose - they can smell even the smallest bit of food from far far away. The Lachrymose Leeches are usually quite harmless, preying only on small fish. But if they smell food on a human they will swarm around him
~ Lemony Snicket
I would still not know that Finland had a cuisine, let alone that Kalakukko, a fish pie incorporating spiky bones and heads, was a cherished part of it. So
~ Len Deighton
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
~ Zen Proverb
Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.
~ Luigi Colani
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
~ Barton Seaver